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Article: Apple Mac Pro: quad-core desktop packs power, style.(REVIEWS: THE LATEST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS)(Product/service evaluation)
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- Computer Shopper
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- November 1, 2006
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NO MATTER HOW MANY LEDs Alien-ware crams inside its new cases or how well Velocity Micro routes its internal cables, no Windows-based PC can touch the design of Apple's new Mac Pro. Both inside and out, this system shoves aside the PC competition, taking desktop design in a new direction.
The Mac Pro comes with two Intel dual-core 2.66GHz Xeon CPUs, giving the system a total of four independent processing cores. The $2,499 default configuration also includes a 250GB hard drive, a SuperDrive DVD burner, a budget-level 256MB GeForce 7300 GT graphics card, and IGB of 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Unfortunately, the graphics-card models you can choose among are fairly limited ...